Sound Blaster Audigy not working on P4P800?

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Since I didnt like the onboard sound on the P4P800 and I foolishly sold my old soundcard already, I bought a Sound Blaster
Audigy 1394 (model# Sb0090) from ebay. Got it somewhat cheap at $31 shipped. It was card only, no drivers, manual etc. No
problem right? You can always DL the drivers from the manufacturers website if Windows XP doesn't install them for me.

Well the first time I booted into windows with the card in, it didnt detect it. I shut it off, reseated it and it detected,
but didnt have drivers. So I went online to Creative.com, and downloaded the drivers. Right at the beginning of install, it
tells me it cant find a Sound Blaster Audigy card on my system. So I go to google and look for some diff drivers. I found 2
other sets of drivers (prolly older releases), both of them said the same thing, that it couldnt find an Audigy card on my
system. I swapped PCI slots, same thing.

Is the card dead? I mean windows now picks it up when I boot, that i have a new PCI multimedia device. And in the hardware
manager it shows a PCI multimedia device under the "Sound controllers" and also "1394 controller" under "Network adapters",
Windows is seeing it, but I can't load any drivers for it so it doesnt work. Any suggestions?
 
3in4 said:
Since I didnt like the onboard sound on the P4P800 and I foolishly sold my old soundcard already, I bought a Sound Blaster
Audigy 1394 (model# Sb0090) from ebay. Got it somewhat cheap at $31 shipped. It was card only, no drivers, manual etc. No
problem right? You can always DL the drivers from the manufacturers website if Windows XP doesn't install them for me.

Well the first time I booted into windows with the card in, it didnt detect it. I shut it off, reseated it and it detected,
but didnt have drivers. So I went online to Creative.com, and downloaded the drivers. Right at the beginning of install, it
tells me it cant find a Sound Blaster Audigy card on my system. So I go to google and look for some diff drivers. I found 2
other sets of drivers (prolly older releases), both of them said the same thing, that it couldnt find an Audigy card on my
system. I swapped PCI slots, same thing.

Is the card dead? I mean windows now picks it up when I boot, that i have a new PCI multimedia device. And in the hardware
manager it shows a PCI multimedia device under the "Sound controllers" and also "1394 controller" under "Network adapters",
Windows is seeing it, but I can't load any drivers for it so it doesnt work. Any suggestions?
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Just an oddball, but maybe Creative's drivers require that service pack
1 be installed and your XP installation lacks it. If you have SP1
already, I'd suggest booting into 'safe mode' and doing the installation
there. And of course shutdown whatever might be running at installatinon
time.
I installed XP with SP1 slipstreamed on a i865 board with an original
audigy and there were no problems at all. It even played along perfectly
well with the onboard AC' 97 chipset-driven sound.
Ruling all these out, the soundcard might be hosed even though this
doesn't seem to be the case.

Regards
Nikos
 
Your situation is not that unusual, as the sblive card you have is
more than likely an OEM card that requires specific OEM
software/drivers (basically, the special driver packages have the
card's special ID string therein so the drivers will load correctly).
Browse around the news.creative.com news server and I think you may
find some tips on how to get the drivers to install correctly. I've
seen messages and perhaps solutions with the problems you are
experiencing in regard to other creative sound cards. Also, you might
search google groups for possible solutions. I've seen similar
problems discussed in regard to the SBLive sb0220 model cards which I
sortof recall being a Dell OEM card (I could be wrong on that one).

--
Best regards,
Kyle
| Since I didnt like the onboard sound on the P4P800 and I foolishly
sold my old soundcard already, I bought a Sound Blaster
| Audigy 1394 (model# Sb0090) from ebay. Got it somewhat cheap at $31
shipped. It was card only, no drivers, manual etc. No
| problem right? You can always DL the drivers from the manufacturers
website if Windows XP doesn't install them for me.
|
| Well the first time I booted into windows with the card in, it didnt
detect it. I shut it off, reseated it and it detected,
| but didnt have drivers. So I went online to Creative.com, and
downloaded the drivers. Right at the beginning of install, it
| tells me it cant find a Sound Blaster Audigy card on my system. So I
go to google and look for some diff drivers. I found 2
| other sets of drivers (prolly older releases), both of them said the
same thing, that it couldnt find an Audigy card on my
| system. I swapped PCI slots, same thing.
|
| Is the card dead? I mean windows now picks it up when I boot, that i
have a new PCI multimedia device. And in the hardware
| manager it shows a PCI multimedia device under the "Sound
controllers" and also "1394 controller" under "Network adapters",
| Windows is seeing it, but I can't load any drivers for it so it
doesnt work. Any suggestions?
 
The Audigy is known to conflict with HyperThreading during the Audigy's
loading it's initial drivers. The solution is to disable HyperThreading in
the BIOS, then install the Audigy and it's drivers. Restart the computer
and then enable HyperThreading. This is from the SoundBlaster site.

--
DaveW



3in4 said:
Since I didnt like the onboard sound on the P4P800 and I foolishly sold my
Click to expand...
old soundcard already, I bought a Sound Blaster
Audigy 1394 (model# Sb0090) from ebay. Got it somewhat cheap at $31
Click to expand...
shipped. It was card only, no drivers, manual etc. No
problem right? You can always DL the drivers from the manufacturers
Click to expand...
website if Windows XP doesn't install them for me.
Well the first time I booted into windows with the card in, it didnt
Click to expand...
detect it. I shut it off, reseated it and it detected,
but didnt have drivers. So I went online to Creative.com, and downloaded
Click to expand...
the drivers. Right at the beginning of install, it
tells me it cant find a Sound Blaster Audigy card on my system. So I go to
Click to expand...
google and look for some diff drivers. I found 2
other sets of drivers (prolly older releases), both of them said the same
Click to expand...
thing, that it couldnt find an Audigy card on my
system. I swapped PCI slots, same thing.

Is the card dead? I mean windows now picks it up when I boot, that i have
Click to expand...
a new PCI multimedia device. And in the hardware
manager it shows a PCI multimedia device under the "Sound controllers"
Click to expand...
and also "1394 controller" under "Network adapters",
Windows is seeing it, but I can't load any drivers for it so it doesnt
Click to expand...
work. Any suggestions?
 
Nope, that didnt work either. Turned off the HT in the bios and still the same error "cannot find Sound Blaster Audigy on
this system"
 
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